Roof or wall covering.



E. BUTTON.

vROOF 0R WALL GOVEBING. -APPLIOAION FILED JUNE 25, 1909.

Patented Feb. 28, 1911.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

HEDLEY BUTTON, 0F TREVALrYN, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA.'

ROOF OR WALL -COVERING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 28, 1911.

Application filled .Tune 25, 1909.` ASerial No. 504,313.

My invention refers to improvements inthe construction of roofs or walls particularly when the roof covering is composed of flexible weather resisting materia-ls in sheet form.' such as are known in the trade as malthoid, rubberoid or the like.

I propose to construct other weather resisting materials with asti' backing, preferably composed of wood, in such a way that they may be easily handled and quickly laid. The weather resistlng material is first cut into pieces of the requisite sizeand shape and is then attached by cement-or by any other suitable means lto battens or plywood. The vplywood backing has a smaller area than the tile material and this permits the covering material to overlap the batten, in most cases, on two or more of its edges. By such means weathering is obtained when a number of tiles are.

laid to provide a roof or wall.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of two tiles made according to my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of part of a roof, a portion of which is covered with the tiles. Fig. 3 is a section on the line A, B, Fig. 1, and Fig.

4 is a section of two tiles showing the over-l lapping.

The covering l is attached to the batten 2 by a water proof or other cement. On two of the edges of the batten the covering 1 will overlap as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. The next tile when laid alongside above or below as the case may be will supply the overlap or come under the overlap, which will thusprovide the weather-v ing while the batten of each will make a butt joint with the batten of the next tile.

The overlapping portion of the covering is adapted to be elevated slightly from the batten, as shown in Fig. 4, for the purpose of, getting at the first hatten to nail it down, and to also enable the second tobe secured in the same manner. After the battens vare fastened, the overlaps are cemented over tiles of such or the nails to the next tiles and so on until the roof is completed. In the constructonof a roof or wall the timbers should consist of rafters or studs 3 and purlins 4 (Fig. 2) the latter being checked flush into the rafters or studs. The

`rafters and purlinsare disposed in'such a.

way that all edges'of each tile may be dil rectly secured thereto. When the roof is finished, the interior will present an un- I broken surface of battons each closely abutting upon the next. By means of the invention therefore, the lining now necessary in roof or'wa-ll construction is dispensed with.

The weather resisting covering may be cut to any convenient size, and is then attached vto the hatten. The distance between the rafters or studs and the purlins will be adjusted to suit the size of the tiles, or the Vtiles made of a size tol correspond with the supports.

Some iof the tiles, such as those that are laid at the top or edge of a roof or wall may have more than two overlapping sides for the purpose of turning over one side to assist in forming a ridge or other angle covering.

For the ordinary purposes of. the invention, the tile covering will be formed with two of its contiguous sides or edges iush with the backing piece, thus providing two overlapping portions, as shwneund'er which the edges of the next tiles will come when laid. By this means tiles can be laid with weathering lap required-horizontal or diagonal as preferred. l

Having now described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is zy 1. A roofing tile or the like, comprising a body portion or backing of light relatively rigid material requiring support merely at its edges and an outer facing of relatively thin flexible sheet water-resisting material of greater area than the backing and having projecting portions `on two sides forming flaps for overlapping the edge portions of adjacent tiles.

2. A roofing tile or the like, comprising a body portion or backing of light relatively rigidmaterial requiring lsupport merely at its edges and an outer facing of relatively thin flexible sheet water-resisting'material of greater area than the backing and having projecting portions on two sides forming thin iexible sheet Water-resisting material sisting material constituting an outer facinv of tiles.

" relatively thin Jiiexible sheet Water-resisting body portion or'backing of light relatively rigid material requiring support 'merely at Itiles said tiles resting on said purlins and fiaps for overlappingthe edge portionsof adjacent tiles, said backing and .facing materials being united by cement.

3. A roofing tile or the like, comprising 'a itsedges and an outerfacing of relatively and being of greater area lthan theslab di wood, beyond which it projects on two sides to form iiaps for overlappingabutting,edges 5. A roofcomprising rafters, purlins, andabutting one another edge to edge, and comprising` a body portion or backing of light relatively, rigid material' requiring support merely at its edges andan outer facing of material of greater area than lthe backing and having projecting portions orf two sides forming flaps for overlapping the edge portions of adjacent tiles. 6. A roof comprising rafters, purlins, and

sheet ,of fibrous Water-resisting material said slab of wood constituting a relativel rigid backing or body portion and said s eet of water-resisting material constituting an outer 'facing and being of greater areathan the slab of wood, beyond which-it rejects on two sides to form liaps for over apping abutting edges of tiles. c

. 7.,.A tile comprising a sheet of weatherresisting material and a rigid backing piece, said backing piece being j beneath said Weather-resisting material and requiring support merely at itsedges and said weatherresisting material being of larger area than said backing' piece so that its edge extends over the edge of said backing piece, and said, Weather resisting material being attached t to the outeriace of said backing'piece, but being free from the latter at points near one edge of the backing piece whereby lthe latter such edge withcan .be nailed in place along er-resistlng maout perforating said weat terial.

In Witness whereof, I have lierel'into signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. l i

' HEDLEY BUTTON.

'lVitn-esses :v i

JOHN P. BRAY, E. DE LANGE. 

